Our planet's biodiversity is under great threat, and habitat loss is generally considered the greatest single cause. The Green Futures Lab innovates strategies for creating quality habitat, particularly within urban environments where it is most limited.

Open Space Seattle 2100

Over 300 citizens and leaders from civic, environmental, business, and community groups created a comprehensive green infrastructure network plan to guide Seattle’s urban development over the next 100 years.

Green Roof Database and Evaluation

An interdisciplinary project to evaluate the performance, benefits, design and cost of green roof prototypes and to develop and online performance database in partnership with Snyder Roofing and the City of Seattle.

Reflections: People on the Waterfront

A planning study envisioning public rights-of-way “shoreline street ends” in Seattle as treasured community open spaces, and researching their potential to affect individual and community health and wellbeing.

Green Futures Research & Design Lab
Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Built Environments